“Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the unce...”

“I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.”

“I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.”

“Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.”

“Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.”

“My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.”

“He doesn't know who I am.”

“So long as I remain in Day's life, I will hurt him. Any other alternative is impossible.Now, he is free.”

“I love you," I whisper over and over again. "Don't go," I close my eyes. My tears fall on his cheeks.”

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to...”

“[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)”

“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. ...”